My maximum fishing that I've reached was around 200 or so before I just quit. It just takes way too long to level; the only interesting way to level it is through dailies. (but obviously, those are only once a day)
Finally finding about some of the bots that are flooding the users online - bytespider apparently is a huge offender here - ignores robots.txt and comes in from a ton of different IPs
Ghan has said he has fixed this. Monovertex please confirm this fix. This was only a problem with people that had signatures in the upper levels like not the special members but the respected members.